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Will the Real Rick Ducharme Please Stand Up?
Speaking with the refreshing candour of a man not interested in sucking up to the boss, former TTC General Manager Rick Ducharme weighed in on the issue...
By James Bow -
Wanted: a transit visionary for GTA
cross-posted from Spacing Votes by Zach Slootsky Why can’t Toronto find someone with the guts to stand up for transit? This is the question that...
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Low floor buses a bust
Both Howard Moscoe and Chief General Manager Gary Webster say the new low-floor buses have been a failure due to their poor seating in the rear of the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Subway Extension to East Mall Proposed
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. This past Wednesday, Etobicoke community council voted to ask city staff to investigate the possibility of extending the...
By James Bow -
TTC merchandise commentary in Eye Weekly
Liz Clayton has a story this week in Eye about the new store TTC Transit Stuff (she also wrote about Spacing’s subway buttons). Read the full...
By Matthew Blackett -
Monarchs everywhere!
Monarchs, monarchs, everywhere! From today’s Star: They’re suddenly everywhere — majestic black and orange butterflies fluttering in...
By Matthew Blackett -
Subway Navigator
I was recently forwarded the Subway Navigator site which has a number of international cities’ subway maps and can help you figure out how to get...
By Matthew Blackett -
Tuesday’s headlines
• Follow the leader game just unfair to challengers: Royson James has a good piece in the Star today about the upcoming city election...
By Matthew Blackett -
Popular August posts on the Spacing Wire
In mid-March of 2006 we decided to activate our comments section to let Spacing Wire readers have their say, too. We’ve been very happy with the...
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Every station club
Over at Torontoist, David Topping has been posting an image every day, for 69 days, of a Toronto subway station, and today is the final day of the...
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Building Neighbourhoods along with Subways
Urban consultant and former councillor Richard Gilbert has a very interesting op-ed in the Star today arguing that each of the proposed new subway...
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Friday’s headlines
• Who said cops are lazy? Well, a Toronto Star reader did and asked the Fixer why, after nine years of amalgamation, the Toronto Police HQ on College...
By Matthew Blackett